Sinkhole A novel

Davida Gypsy Breier

Book - 2022

"Boiled peanuts, lovebugs, and murder. Lies from the past and a dangerous present collide when, after fifteen years in exile, Michelle Miller returns to her tiny hometown of Lorida, Florida. With her mother in the hospital, she's forced to reckon with the broken relationships she left behind: with her family, with friends, and with herself. As a teenager, Michelle felt isolated and invisible until she met Sissy, a dynamic and wealthy classmate. Their sudden, intense friendship was all-consuming. Punk rocker Morrison later joins their clique, and they become an inseparable trio. They were the perfect high school friends, bound by dysfunction, bad TV, and boredom-until one of them ends up dead. Confronting the death of her best frie...nd requires Michelle to face her past if she is going to survive. But what if everything she remembers is a lie? Or just as dangerous: What if it isn't? An ingenious debut from editor and publisher Davida Breier, Sinkhole is a mesmerizing, darkly comic coming-of-age thriller immersed in 1980s central Florida. A disturbing and skillful exploration of home, friendship, selfhood, and grief set amidst golf courses, mobile homes, and alligators"--

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Genres
Thrillers (Fiction)
Historical fiction
Bildungsromans
Novels
Published
New Orleans, Louisiana : University of New Orleans Press [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Davida Gypsy Breier (author)
Physical Description
263 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781608012305
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In 1986, Michelle Miller, the narrator of Breier's mesmerizing debut, was 18 when she fled a trailer park after causing her best friend's death in the nowhere town of Larida, Fla. In 2001, a terse phone call from Michelle's brother--their mother may be dying--forces Michelle to return home, the last place she wants to go. As the friendless Michelle, now calling herself Ann, drives the long miles from Atlanta, where she works in a hospital's medical records department, toward Larida, memories of Sissy Davis, the girl who befriended her in high school, replay themselves. Flash back to the mid-1980s. Sissy, the indulged but neglected daughter of wealthy parents with her own car and credit card, is the center of Michelle's world. Joined by Morrison Nuñez, another high school outsider, the three become an unbreakable clique with Sissy at its center until the worst happens. Michelle must now face the truth of those years and the consequences of allowing her best friend to die. A clever plot and astute characterizations help drive this coming-of-age tale with a malevolent twist. Readers will eagerly await Breier's next. (May)

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